Asian tiered tower with multiple eaves to keep inclement weather from coming inside the structure. Used in Buddhist and Taoist religious structures in Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, and India often near a monastery, they are also sometimes used as an ornamental motif atop ceramic vessels. In Burma, variants of a pagoda but looking more like the top of a Buddhist stupa is used atop a hsun ok, a lacquer vessel used by Buddhists wishing to earn merit by filling the vessel with foods and other items and donating its contenst to the monks at Buddhist monasteries.
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A stupa is a memorial shrine and a sacred burial mound to house sacred relics associated with the Buddha or other Buddhist saintly persons, a symbol of the Buddha’s enlightenment and a model of the Buddhist cosmos (McArthur, p. 179). Initially they were hemispherical mound-like shapes and were transformed in East Asia into a pagoda…
Oxen/bullocks and their carts were the primary means in Burma/Myanmar for plowing, hauling or transportation. Inexpensive and adaptable to any terrain, they were used to tend fields and carry goods, agricultural products, lumber, and people. Two or four-wheeled carts were pulled by one or a pair of oxen that were hitched to the cart by…
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